Mapping the Grand Traverse Indian country: the contributions of Peter Dougherty.
From: Michigan Historical Review
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Date: 3/22/2005
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Author: Tanner, Helen Hornbeck
The Reverend Peter Dougherty (1805-1894) came to northwestern Michigan in 1838 as a missionary sent out by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. He has not been known as a cartographer, but his sketch maps of the Grand Traverse region in letters sent back to his superiors in Philadelphia are the earliest reasonably accurate record of the contours of Grand Traverse Bay and the distribution of the Indian population in the vicinity. For this coastal region, as well ...
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